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Mum sent me a package.

YOU KNOW IT'S THAT TIME

Inside was:

A full issue of the sunday comics, neatly folded
An entire issue of the sunday coupons section of the paper
A valentine's day card with five dollars inside
A box of Pocky
A box of "cranberry frogs" which are like normal "frogs" (pecans and caramel covered in chocolate) except with cranberries in
A pad of post-it notes
A packet of pork gravy mix
An ad for "sticky toffee cheese"
And an Ikea ad, which was nice, except it's like I'm being taunted with how I will never own a nice couch.

People have suggested that the randomness of these packages hides some kind of secret message, but if it does, it's beyond me. I love her packages, I just very rarely understand them.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I have only ever heard the deliciously addictive pecan-caramel-chocolate things called 'turtles.'

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

They have tons of names -- frogs, turtles, in Texas they're Millionaires, Walgreens sells them as "pots of gold"...

Cranberry versions are apparently known as "bog frogs". :D

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Haha! That is an excuse to change one's personal vocabulary, right there ... though I suppose 'bog turtles' also works ... even if it sounds like it could be a toilet cleaning product.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

(I was going to say that I'd only heard them called "turtles" too.)

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Walgreens; it's like Wal-Mart for fancy people.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

LOL clearly you have not been in my local Walgreens. :D

[lots42.livejournal.com]

Spill, girlfriend.

Or not. Not sure where you're going with this.

8-p

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Chicago is chock-a-block with them -- the joke is "I'm lost! There's a Walgreens on the corner and a Money Store across the street!" "Good luck."

They're just not particularly fancy. Not nearly as fancy as some Wal-Marts I've been in. :D

[memprime.livejournal.com]

That two story Walgreens on State Street is pretty fancy...

[kevin-hy.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, too.

Cranberry Turtles sounds like a great band name.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The Cranberry Terrapins! The new indie bluegrass nerd punk sensation!

[minkrose]

Ditto this, and I have a box of dark chocolate ones sitting in my fridge (handmade, purchased last week in northern MN). Time for breakfast!